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Monday, October 12, 2009

shadow nest

My sons have wings. I keep telling my heart to be still. It leaps and lurches and wallows.

Put miserable Max on the plane this morning covered in poison ivy rashes. So much for feeling good about saving trees!

This nest image is a photographic "collage" of my woven branches from the yard, a heart sculpture I own of Pat Lasch's and then, just the nest and my shadow.

Found on the internet:

PatLasch describes her recent work as being propelled by "autobiographical urgency." The domestic and personal have consistently been central to Lasch's work. She became known in the late '70s for wedding-cake-like sculptures embellished with acrylic paint squeezed from pastry tubes. She wrote a book with her baker father called If You Make a Mistake, Put a Rose on It. But a rose won't do the trick here: the sequence of sculptures with accompanying text penciled on the wall tells a sad story of marital unfaithfulness...

TILLY STRAUSS

Tilly Strauss relocated to the
southern side of Miami from Dutchess County NY. Her whimsical works both hide and reveal a
domestic quietude with restless escapism. Contrived out of found text,
poetry, paint and soul searching, her studio work is featured on the
website www.tillystudio.com